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To: Thatcherite

"The key thing about scientific theories is that they should make successful predictions about as-yet unobserved data-points."

OK, so what is the scientific community's prediction about the next step in the evolutionary process?


207 posted on 09/26/2005 11:08:18 AM PDT by hyperkitty (DON'T PANIC)
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To: hyperkitty; KMJames
OK, so what is the scientific community's prediction about the next step in the evolutionary process?

Evolutionary biologists cannot predict the course of evolution in the distant future any better than a meteorologist can predict the weather in the distant future. That's not the sort of "prediction" being discussed here.

Some examples of successful predictions made by evolutionary theory

212 posted on 09/26/2005 11:19:06 AM PDT by Quark2005 (Where's the science?)
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To: hyperkitty
OK, so what is the scientific community's prediction about the next step in the evolutionary process?

That it will occur.

213 posted on 09/26/2005 11:19:16 AM PDT by Antonello
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